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These new spotting dots are working great for me. They look good at long distance and the aircraft just grow from them as they get closer with no jumpy transition. Good job ED. (VR, QuestPro, Oculus Link, RTX4090) Canopy reflections are a problem on the re-vamped FW190 Anton. Too strong and don't respond to slider in setup menu. Also they flicker with head movement.

I have the flickery canopy thing too. Also the canopy reflections are too strong and don't respond to the setup menu slider. Nice to see the A8 getting some updates though.

I agree that the new cockpit textures are a nice surprise. There's also so nice scratched perspex look on the canopy glazing that I've never noticed before. However I'm getting a problem with the canopy reflections which are too strong and don't respond to the slider in the menu. The reflections also flicker when I move my head (VR). Anyone else seeing this or just me? Other aircraft seem ok. Spotting dots seem to have had some attention too.

Just had my first few flights on this map and OMG I love, love, love it! I fly helicopters and WW2 so it's going to take me a long time to explore it all. And the performance is the best of any map I have tried. I just flew VR for about two hours over Falklands and around Puerto Natales and not a single stutter or dropped frame. I never knew DCS could be so smooth.

Given the positive comments, I succumbed to temptation. Downloading 77GB now...

I think the line "Fixed: tail wheel too sensitive" is something of an understatement. It seems that the whole ground behaviour has been re-done. It's now very easy (maybe too easy?) to land and take off. Much less bouncy and nothing seems to break. Tail up landing seems to be much more like the videos of real Mosquitos. The sharp, bumpy, racing car ride now feels like a luxury saloon car. The nose-over effect from the brakes is completely gone and the brakes are joy to use on my motion rig. Unfortunately the new update seems to have wiped out my FPS on the Normandy map. The frame time graph looks like a startled porcupine and the map is pretty much unusable. All my other maps seem ok, at least as far as anything in DCS is ok when it comes to stutters.

This.......

I've been tempted by this map in the past but was put off by the lack of free trial. Now it's revamped and half price in the sale and I'm tempted again, but put off now by the current Razbam situation. I see some mentions here and on Discord of this being a different team that's not affected by the current dispute. Is this an officially stated position by Razbam or ED, or just optimistic forum chatter? (No disrespect intended to anyone who has stated this.)

I just download the I-16. Same problem and same fix. Thanks for the thread.

Finally got round to doing the Mosquito engine box. It's a chunky beast.

If Early Access is an essential part of the DCS business model then I would suggest some steps are taken to fix it because it seems to me to be one of the major causes of angst among customers. To me the problem is that everything is far too vague. A module is released and all sorts of future upgrades are talked about, hinted at and even promised, but there's never any timescale given. Years go by with little or no progress and Early Access customers feel let down and that their trust has been betrayed. I think ED should introduce (and adhere to) some standards for Early Access, with definite lists of coming features and TIMESCALES, so that everyone knows exactly where they stand. Or do away with Early Access and have other systems, like what was done with the Normandy map and its V2, or the Afghanistan map. Looking at current releases it seems that the likes of the Kola map and the Chinook are being released barely half finished. It's a huge leap of faith to buy into that; faith that has not always been well rewarded for Early Access customers.

Welcome to the world of DCS, a place of eternal youth where nothing gets old because just being created takes forever. I would imagine the economics are that it's more profitable for a publisher to use its resources to bring new stuff to market than it is to fix and finish the existing stuff. Result: nothing gets finished and people who have bought early access modules (for a miserly discount) are left out in the cold. The solution would be for us customers to just stop buying unfinished stuff, but we want the latest toys so... Looking through the current catalogue there are a few things that I fancy getting, but I'm done with early access. If it ain't finished it ain't getting my money.

Yes, plenty of Pico/ethernet stuff but I didn't really see any Quest/ethernet worth pursuing. No matter for me, I'll be back at the other house next week where the big PC lives and will play about then. Thanks for all the replies.

LOL! Mine was actually "lightly used to work on an Unreal Engine project". Other than the seal broken on the box it would have passed as new. I've seen them on Amazon for £5-600 with Amazon return policy. Yes, but I declined to open a developer account after it demanded too much personal information.

I actually got mine for £430. It seems legit. Already did the rear pad mod. At the moment I'm just messing around with it on my old computer. VR in DCS is so fragile and I like to work out at least some idea of what I'm doing before mucking about with, and possibly screwing up my main PC which has XR Necksafer and XR Motion Compensation on it so there's a lot to screw up. I have bought Virtual Desktop but don't have a WIFI setup on the old PC to make it work properly. I didn't realize VD doesn't work with a cable until I'd bought it, lol. So at the moment I'm just messing with the Meta link. Perhaps once it's all setup there won't be much need to see the PC desktop so the dashboard thingy won't be an issue. My main PC is hard wired to a WIFI6 router so presumably VD will work when I move onto it. I did download Quad Views and saw it working, but only as fixed at the moment. As I understand things the eye tracking data is only available if I open a developer account and I baulked at that when Mr Zuckerman demanded my credit card details and phone number. This alone might be the decider for VD.

There seem to be a lot of apparently new and sealed QPros for sale in the UK at the moment for around £500ish (half what Meta UK are charging), so I picked one up to replace my G2 and have been setting it up with lots of help from this thread. So far I'm loving the quality of the visuals, not hugely loving the comfort, and not loving at all the bloated, intrusive META crap that comes with it. Part of that crap is the infuriating controller pop-ups. So far my research has only come up with keep the controllers on the charging dock or turn them off by holding the menu button for at least ten seconds. This seems to get rid of the pop-ups in game but there's still an even bigger one plastered over the PC link dashboard saying the controllers can't be found. I've even un-paired the controllers and this pop-up persists. Also there seems to be no way to interact with the link dashboard without the controllers. I can use hand tracking to start the link off but only the controllers seem to be able to click that one stupid button needed to show the PC desktop. I was wondering if a Bluetooth mouse might be able to click that button but presumably the stupid pop-up would remain. How are people here dealing with these pesky controllers?

Oh how I wish I'd seen this thread a few months ago. I've just been reading it thinking it's exactly my experience: expensive new system, works great with everything except DCS which is a stutterfest. And for me the solution was the same: wipe DCS completely and reinstall from scratch (I didn't wipe Windows). So I'm leaving this comment to bump up the thread and hope it gets noticed by some other stutter sufferers.

I've made some Authentikit stuff and the Mosquito throttle is on my to do list, right after I finish the current Heli collective project. Authentikit stuff is brilliantly designed and generally features ball bearings, adjustable friction and damping so the feel is better than you might think. It is plastic of course and can be a bit flimsy but if something breaks you can just print a replacement part. If you want things to assemble as easily as in the videos you need a decent and reliable printer and know how to set it up and calibrate it accurately, and this is I think the biggest challenge. It's very satisfying to use stuff when you've made it yourself.

The South Atlantic map seems to divide opinions. Some reviewers praise it for offering something different and amazing terrain, some criticize it for apparently patchy quality and poor frame rates. Most reviews are older than recent updates so may, or may not now be invalid. As a potential purchaser it's hard to not see the lack of free trial as a lack of confidence by the developer in their product. In the absence of consistently good reviews I can't see that I'll buy without a trial.

Thanks for clarifying @BIGNEWY. Like others, I had a yuk knee-jerk reaction to the thought of having to have some bit of Google spyware just to play DCS but on further research it seems quite innocuous really. And the free trials are a very nice and generous feature of DCS.

Well if it's just for website access then I think I'm going to give it a go. My Facebook and Steam accounts have both been stolen in the last couple of years. Facebook were worse than useless and showed no interest at all but Steam did manage to recover my account with them. I've got a lot more invested in my DCS account and wouldn't want to lose it.

Does this not defeat the whole point of 2FA, or are we taking the view that hackers wouldn't have DCS installed? Also, if I enable 2FA on my account, does that mean I have to fart around with a phone every time I launch the game or is it just for account access?

Thank you to @The_Nephilim for taking the time to look through my log. I've run several benchmarks and apparently my system is pretty good for its spec. The page file thing is a new one for me. Something else to fiddle with in the war against stutters. In the meantime it seems I have made some very significant improvement. The prolonged and most objectional stutters seem to be gone and the frequency of the micro stutters seems to be down from about one every ten seconds average to just occasional, so still a bit annoying but no longer hideous. Unfortunately my expectations from recent tinkering were pretty much zero and I stopped being methodical and trying one thing at a time. I did a load of stuff together and don't know what exactly is the significant bit. In a fit of disgust I deleted DCS completely, intending to never play it again. Everything went, game, saved games, control mapping, the lot. I think the level of disgust might be an important factor here as it really makes you want to get rid of every last vestige of the game. The next day the thought of never flying the Mosquito (even though ED have totally screwed up its ground handling), or the Skyhawk, or the FW190 was too much and I installed it all again. I've done a load of cleans and repairs before and my installation wasn't very old but maybe a good ol' clean out and reload reaches the parts that clean and repairs don't. While it was downloading I found there is a new Nvidea driver so I updated to that. Then I went through the stuff suggested by @Flappie in this thread and copied as many of them as I could. I've been through this before but did it again. The bit about HPET seemed a bit scary so I kept away from that. There's also a VR prerendered frames setting in Nvidea which sounds like the sort of thing that might reduce stuttering but doesn't. I had it set to 3 and changed it back to 1. I uninstalled Process Lassoo. There has been much talk of core management issues but I think a lot of it only relates to Intel CPUs. I never got any improvement from my AMD so I got rid of Lassoo and any botch up settings I might have made. I've also done something with Windows power management. Not sure what I've done but my PC now just restarts when told to shut down so I've obviously screwed something up. I had this service disabled previously with no noticeable effect. I re-enabled it and set everything to max performance but seem to have done something more to it. And the result of all this is like a night and day improvement. Definitely not just a hopeful placebo effect. Almost no stutters in menus or when paused, and just a few dropped frames in game, usually when something happens like fire a weapon or look around quickly. For the first time I feel like I'm actually seeing the sort of results that my expensive system should be capable of. Got the eye candy dialled up now, shadows, AA, clouds, textures all up and still running pretty smoothly. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Back in December I bought a new and very expensive PC to replace my pretty decent 3070/5800 based system, in the hope and expectation of finding the best possible performance in DCS and then upgrade my VR headset to something better than my Reverb G2. The new PC has all the stuff: 4090,R7-7800x3d,6GHz RAM etc... What has followed has been three months of frustration and disappointment. While the new system has indeed perked up MSFS and IL2, the performance in DCS is barely better than my old system, possibly actually worse. The problem is stuttering. Apparently random micro-stutters and longer, prolonged stutters too. These stutters occur when playing on any map with any aircraft and seem unrelated to the complexity of the scene or the graphics settings in DCS. They occur with the game paused, and EVEN ON THE START MENU PAGE. I have spent many hours searching for a solution, both here and elsewhere on the web, and slavishly tried every suggested fix mentioned. DCS settings, PC power, Hotplug, Core affinity (maybe only for intel?), disabled antivirus, windows priorities, game mode on/off, disconnect from network, remove USB devices, rolled back to 2.8, etc etc. Nothing seems to make the slightest difference. The general performance of my system seems very good. I can get good framerates in VR with reasonably high settings even in cluttered scenarios, but the continual stutters just ruin ruin everything. I get the impression that I might be unusual in that I'm getting stuttering when paused and in the start menu, so maybe someone can suggest something new? Thanks in advance to anyone who tries to help. At the moment I feel like I'm at the end of the road with DCS. dxdiag.txt dcs.log

Replacement Reverb cable came today and fortunately seems have fixed things, so I'm spared having to decide on where to go next for a while at least. I still feel tempted to try a Pico4 though.